Ruth Buchanan: Heute Nacht geträumt, 19 Mar 2022 — 14 Aug 2022
Exhibitions

Ruth Buchanan: Heute Nacht geträumt

At the heart of the questions that shape Ruth Buchanan’s exhibition "Heute Nacht geträumt" is the desire to reconsider the paradigms under which museums might function today.

Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, St. Alban-Rheinweg 60, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

Museums have been asked to be many things over the centuries: they have housed artworks bought, gifted, and stolen; they have been institutions of beauty, pain, and inspiration. In many ways, they have been one of the spheres that combine the complexity of what it is to be a human in the world and a participant in the systems that form this same world. At the heart of the questions that shape Ruth Buchanan’s exhibition “Heute Nacht geträumt” at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart is the desire to reconsider the paradigms under which museums might function today.

At the center of Aotearoa New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan’s practice are the spatio-political dimensions of organisational systems. She brings this lens to the Kunstmuseum Basel by deep-diving into its contemporary holdings. The collection, the building, the exhibition history, all become part of an engine of research that produce a reflection of the procedures that have shaped this institution. Buchanan’s museum-wide installation spans captioning systems all the way through to architectural intervention, encouraging a rethinking of how we participate in and shape public life.

Contacts & Details
OPENING TIMES:
Fri – Sun, Tue, Thu 11am – 6pm
Wed 11am – 8pm

CLOSING DAYS:
Mon

ADMISSION:
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Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, St. Alban-Rheinweg 60, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

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